Local and federal investigations are underway into the death of a CSI waste employee at a dumpster site in a townhouse complex in Milford Wednesday morning.
Milford Police and Fire officials tell 9News the worker had previously been at the Gatehouse Townhouses complex to remove a long dumpster on his company's flat bed truck. The victim, identified as Rodney Brown, apparently returned with an empty dumpster around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Fire officials say as the lone worker was preparing to lower the empty dumpster back into place, he was trapped in between the dumpster's gate and the truck.
Residents say they heard the CSI truck arrive at the complex as they normally do, and nothing sounded unusual. Fire officials fear 52-year-old Brown may have been trapped by the dumpster for as long as 30 minutes before he was discovered by a resident.
The Clermont County Coroner's Office declared the Loveland man dead at the scene.
A representative of the federal Office of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) arrived on the scene to investigate the incident shortly after 1 p.m.
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